Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 | Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2012 | Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 2003 | Lenore Tawney: Visions in Time, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2000 | Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |
| 1998 | Lenore Tawney: Shrines Part II, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Lenore Tawney: Vestures of Water, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Lenore Tawney: Meditations, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Lenore Tawney: Meditative Images, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Lenore Tawney: roots, tendrils, threads, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Lenore Tawney, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Lenore Tawney: Shrines, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Lenore Tawney: Boundless World, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1994-98 | Tenri Gallery, New York, NY (1994, 98) |
| 1992 | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 1990 | Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts and Design), New York, NY (national tour)
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| 1988 | Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1985-86 | Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY (1985, 86) |
| 1981 | Lenore Tawney: Fibers/Collages, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
| 1980 | Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA |
| 1979 | Lenore Tawney, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
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| 1978 | Lenore Tawney: A Personal World, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT |
| 1975 | Lenore Tawney, California State University, Fullerton, CA |
| 1970 | Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1969-90 | Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL (1969, 80, 90) |
| 1968 | Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1967-74 | Willard Gallery, New York, NY (1967, 70, 74) |
| 1967-81 | Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (1967, 69, 75, 81)
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| 1962 | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1961 | Lenore Tawney, Staten Island Museum, New York, NY |
| 1960 | Tapestries by Lenore Tawney, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Centre, London
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
| 2023 | Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Takaezu & Tawney: An Artist is a Poet, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR |
| 2015 | Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (national tour) Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture…then and now, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |
| 2014 | Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA (national tour) |
| 2013 | Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany The Art of Handwriting, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (national tour) Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany   |
| 2012 | Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (national and international tour) To Be a Lady, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |
| 2008 | Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 2004 | Traditions/Transformations: The Changing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
| 2003 | Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA |
| 2003 | Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), Valencia, Spain |
| 1999 | Material Perception – Celebrating Art and Architecture: Creating a Place for People, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC |
| 1998 | North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
| 1996 | Fiber and Form: The Womanʼs Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1994 | Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
| 1993 | Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 1991 | Intimate and Intense: Small Fiber Structures, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1990 | Revered Earth, Premieres at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, (national tour) |
| 1989 | Craft Today USA, organized by American Craft Museum, New York. Premieres at Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (international tour) Fiber Concepts, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, organized by North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. Premieres at Ishikawa Design Center, Kanazawa, Japan (international tour) |
| 1987 | The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, OK (national and international tour) |
| 1986 | Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (national tour) Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (national tour) |
| 1983 | 11éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1982 | Fiber 82, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ |
| 1981 | Lenore Tawney/Toshiko Takaezu, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI The Art Fabric Mainstream, American Federation of Arts. Premieres at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (national tour) Tracking the Marvelous, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY |
| 1979 | 100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Form and Fiber, Works by Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland  |
| 1978 | Tawney/Higa/Sawada, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ |
| 1977 | Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Lenore Tawney and a Fiber Tradition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
| 1975 | 7éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1974 | Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY In Praise of Hands, Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Canada Fiber Forms… past and present, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT |
| 1973 | Fibre Art, Halls Exhibition Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1970 | Neuerwerbungen aus den letzten Jahren, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1969 | Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Premieres at National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (national and international tour) Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (national tour) |
| 1964 | Gewebte Formen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy |
| 1963 | Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (international tour)
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| 1962 | Adventures in Art, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, WA |
| 1958 | American Artists and Craftsmen, American Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1956 | Craftsmanship in a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design) inaugural exhibition, New York, NY |